Human-level robot hand can pick up a pringle without breaking it - FORTE system could transform household robots, as well as ...

A robotic hand developed at UT Austin can pick up the most fragile items, like potato chips or eggs, without crushing them.

Robotic hands do show a lot of promise for various applications, but their mechanical complexity still limits their possible uses. A new air-powered hand is much simpler, but still dextrous enough to ...

Engineers have created an inflatable robot so nimble it can beat the classic Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. What distinguishes Sochol's design is that it uses new fluidic circuits to control machines ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A robotic hand called the Robotic Air-Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments (Raphael) uses compressed air to combine improved dexterity with low cost, according to engineers at Virginia ...

In context: Engineers often model robots after humans. Even the robotic arms in a car manufacturing plant bear a passing resemblance to their human counterpart. The main difference usually comes down ...

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Researchers have successfully created a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons using 3D printing for the first time. A team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland were able to accomplish the complex ...

The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., has developed a robotic hand that can The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) ...